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My grandfather's knocking sticks : Ojibwe family life and labor on the reservation /

Child, Brenda J., 1959-

My grandfather's knocking sticks : Ojibwe family life and labor on the reservation / Ojibwe family life and labor on the reservation Brenda J. Child. - 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index.

"Child uses her grandparents' story as a gateway into discussion of various kinds of labor and survival in Great Lakes Ojibwe communities, from traditional ricing to opportunistic bootlegging, from healing dances to sustainable fishing. The result is a portrait of daily work and family life on reservations in the first half of the twentieth century"--

9780873519243 (pbk.)

2014031345


Auginash, Fred, 1888-1957.
Auginash, Jeanette, 1905-


Ojibwa Indians--History--20th century.
Ojibwa Indians--Social life and customs--20th century.
Ojibwa Indians--Social conditions--20th century.
Subsistence hunting--Minnesota.
Wild rice--Harvesting--Minnesota.
Prohibition--Minnesota--Red Lake Indian Reservation--Anecdotes.
Ojibwa Indians--Biography.
HISTORY / Native American.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies.


Red Lake Indian Reservation (Minn.)

E99.C6 / C495 2014

977.6/82

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